“”A giant “hole” covering nearly a quarter of the Sun’s atmospheric surface has been caught on camera by a Nasa telescope.– The darker section at the top of the Sun in the above video is a coronal hole – part of the star’s atmosphere where its magnetic field bursts open and spurts streams of solar material out into space. It appears as a dark “hole” on the surface of the sun because the process makes its atmosphere cooler and less dense than those around it.”"” — Daily Telegraph LINK

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